Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-02-09
WASHINGTON.
The Repeal Of the Tax on
Tobacco.
THE SWEET WINE BILL.
A Trigamist Must Suffer-Railways
Through Indian Reservations.
Coast Defenses.

Especial TO the Herald By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, February S.-Speakel
Carlisle to-day received letter signed
John s. Henderson, George D. Wise
and Sam Randall, of which the following
extracts convey the Significance;
Dear ir:-We regret exceedingly
that you could not see your way clear to
give recognition yesterday to some Dem
ocrats to enable them to move to sus-
pend the rules. for the purpose of Civ
ing the House an opportunity to CON
slider the question of the total repeal oi
the Internal Revenue tax ON tobacco
Your refusal to give this recog
milton, together with your letter ol
the 7th instant deserves more than pass
ing notice. If two.thirds OF the House
are in favor of such repeal, it was a
great responsibility for You to oppose
such large majority of the representa-
tives of the people. Assuming, how.
eser, fer the sake of argument, that the
friends of the proposition consist Of o
less number than two.thirds theii
strength is certainly such that they
ought to have besn permitted to test the
sense of the House upon
the question, specially since
the country is watching with
intense interest the action of the House
in respect to these matters, and the con
stituents Of large number of the mem
bers of the House have been urging
them to obtain, if possible, considera
ton of this subject. We do not wish tt
be misunderstood. We earnestly desire
from party standpoint that recognition
should have been given to some Demo
crat to make the motion, but we wonld
vote cheerfully for the proposition
whether made by Democrat or Rspubli
can. We believe that tho friends of the
repeal of the tobacco tax were SC
strong in the House that we woult
save to the oppressed tax payers OF thi:
country all annual reduction of taxation
to the extent of $28, 100000. If The
motion for the repeal could be made il
the House on Monday of this week
that is the latest day when such melton
to be effective under the rules, would bt
in order during the Forty.Ninth Con
gress. The motion, if made during the
last six days of the session, would almo;
certainly be too late to secure favor
able consideration for the question
in Senate. We think that revision o.
tariff and of internal revenue laws car
be attained from time to time by reform
ing the obvious and greater grievance o.
the two systems, and that we should no
refuse to make such reforms be
cause sweeping changes have no
been practicable. II the Housi
was considered competent to dea
with the silver question, with th'
pension question, and with the eleomar
garine que tion, free from the dictatiol
of the Democratic caucus, we think i
ought to be competent to deal with th'
question of the reduction Of tlxation,
The caucus ought not now t.
be invoked to justify policy
of delay and non-action on this
subject. We sincerely hope, with you
that some plan may yet be devised which
will enable the House to consider tho
whole subject of revenue reduction and
revision in a spirit of fairness tt
all interests in accordance will
the letter and spirit of tht
platform of the National Demo
cratic party adopted at the convention
held at Chicago in the year 1884, and WI
assure you that We are ready to meet
any Of our Democratic associates whs
are prepared to treat with us on sucl
basis.